Commercial.
Richmond Markets, Jan. 31, 1861.
Apples.--Northern $2.50@3.50; Virginia Pippins $2.50 to $4.
Bacon.--Sides 11@11 ¼ cents; Shoulders 9 cts.; plain Hams 12 cents; Sugar-cured 13@13 ½ cents;
Todd's
Sugar-cured Hams 13 cents. Quotations nominal; market dull.
Bags.--Seamless Bags, 25; Manchesterdo., 19@23; Gunny do., 12@14
Beans.--
White $1.37@1.50 per bushel.
Beeswax.--27 cts.
Brooms.--$2@3, according to quality.
Buckets, &c.--Painted Buckets $1.87 ½@$2 per dozen; three-hoop Painted Pails $2.25@2.50 per dozen; heavy Cedar Tubs, neat, $3.50@$5 per neat; heavy Cedar Feed Buckets $6.50 per dozen.
Butter.--We quote good Butter at 20 to 25; inferior 8 to 10
Candles.--Tallow 13 ½@14 per lb.;
Jackson's 14;
Hull's 16; Adamantine 18@20; Sperm 45; Patent Sperm 54@56
Cement.--
James River $1.70@1.80.
per bbl.; Northern Rosendale at $1.7 @1.80.
Coal.--
White and
Red Ash Anthracite Coal, for grates, $7.50 per cart load of 25 bushels, per ton of 2,240 lbs. $8; Foundry do. $7 per ton of 2,240 lbs. ; Bituminous Lump $5 per load of 25 bushels; Hail $4.50; Smiths' Coal 12@14 per bushel.
Coke.--For city consumption $5 per cart load of 25 bushels, for soft lump; soft hail $4.50. Hard lump and hall $4.50.
Coffee.--We quote
Rio 14@15 cents; Laguayra, 15 ½@16 cts.;
Java 18 ½@19 cents; Mocha 18 cts.
Corn.--We quote 60@65 cents per bushel, with a little better feeling.
Corn Meal.--City Bolted Meal 75@80 cents; country 70@75cts.
Cotton.--8 ½ to 12 cts.
Cotton Yarns, &c.--
Cotton Yarns 21@22 cts.; Cotton Cordage 24 cts.; Seine Twine 27 cts.; Carpet Warp 22 cts.;
Wrapping Twine 22 cts.
Dried Fruit.--No arrivals.
We quote nominally $1@1.25 per bushel.
Feathers.--Dull at 44@45 cts.
Fertilizers.--We quote Peruvian $58;
Ruffin's Phosphor Peruvian $50 per ton; Aa. Mexican $25; Elide Island $48; Patagonian $30;
Reese's Manipulated Guano $50;
Rhodes' Super Phosphate of Lime $46.50 per ton;
Robinson's Manipulated Guano $50 per ton;
Hartman's (
Richmond) Amounted Super Phosphate Lime $40 per ton; do. Manipulated Guano $50 per ton; do. Bone Dust $28 per ton.
Fish.--New
Nova Scotia Herrings, gross, $2.75@$3; No. 1
Halifax Cut Herrings $3.25 @ 3.50, from store.
No
North Carolina in market.
Mackerel, large No. 3, new, $8.50; small do. $5.
Flaxseed.--$1.20@1.40 per bushel.
Flour.--The stock of country is reduced very low, and holders are firm.
Sales only for home consumption.
We quote Superfine $6.25@6.50 to the trade; Extra $6.75@$7; Family $7.50@7.75.
Flour Barrels.--45 to 50 cts. for city made; Country have sold recently at from 20 to 30 cts.
Fruit.--Oranges;
Havana $9 per bbl. Lemons; $4.50@5.50 per box. Raisins; Bunch $2.75@$3; layers $3@3.25.
Prunes 10 to 40 cents per box, according to quality.
Figs 2 ½@20 cents per lb.
Ginseng--35@40 cents, and in demand.
Grass Seeds.--We quote prime Clover Seed $6.50 for new; $6@6.25 for old. Timothy $4@ 4.25 per bushel.
Orchard Grass $2.
Gunpowder.--
Dupont's and
Hazard's Sporting $5.75; Blasting $3.75; Eagle Canister $14.25; Fff Canister $8.25. In quantities of twenty kegs and upwards, 50 cents a keg less.
Hay.--$1.10@$1.15 per cwt.
Hides.--Salted 8 ½@9 cents; dry 11@13 cts. Calf Skins, green, $1@1.12.
South American, none
Hoop Poles.--Flour bbl. $7.50@9 per 1,000; hhd. poles, $15.
Iron and Nails.--
Pig Iron $28@34, as in quality and quantity; Swedes $400 per ton; English Refined $70; Tredegar $85; Common
English $60; American country $95. Cut Nails 3 ½ @3 ½ cts. per lb.
Lard.--Westorn Lard 12 cents, in bbls.; kegs 12 ½@13 cents, for new.
Lead.--We quote 5 ½@5 ½ cents per lb. for pig; bar 6 ½@7 cts.
Leather.--We quote good stamp, middle weights, 23@24 cts. per lb.; over weights 22@23 cts.; light 23@23 ½c.; good damaged 21; poor 16@18,
upper leather $2.00@3.50, as to size, weight and quality; Harness 35@35; Skirting, in the rough, 25@25; finished 31@35
Lime.--85 to $1 from wharf.
From store, we quote Northern $1.12 ½;
Virginia 90 @$1.
Liquors.--Brandy: Otard,
Dupuy & Co., $3.25 @7 per gallon;
A. Seignette, $2 ½@4 ½; Saranac $3 ¼@7;
Hennessey $3 ½@ 7 ½; Peach scarce at $1 ¼@2 ¼; Virginia Apple 60@85 cts.; do., old, 75@$1.50; Northern do. 55@85 cts.; Imitation 45@47 ½ cts. Rum;
New England 40@45 for mixed; 50@55 for pure; Gin:
Holland $1.20@1.75.
Lumber.--Clear
White Pine $45; refused do. $29; merchantable $20@25 per M. One inch
Yellow Pine Plank $10@12; three-quarter do. $9@11; 1 ¼ do. $14@16; 1 ½ do. $13@14; 2 do. $12.50@15.
Flooring $18@20, face measure; Scantling $11@13 for heart and sap; all heart $16@20, according to size.
Garden Rails, heart and sap, 12 ½@13 cts. each; all heart 18@25 cts. Shingles $5@6 per
M. Weather Boarding$13@16.
Inch Oak
Plank $30@35.
Buttonwood 1inch $25@30.
Inch
Cherry $35; 1 Poplar $20@25 per
M. Dressed Flooring, Virginia, $25@28.
Dressed Flooring, Southern $28@30.
Laths $2.25 to $2.37 per M for sawed, on the wharf.
Molasses.--New Orleans 45 cts.; Cuba Muscovado, in bbls., 33@37 ½ cts.; in hhds., 25@30 cts.; English Island 37 ½ cts.; Ochenhousen's 28 cts.
Oats.--30@35 cents per bushel.
Offal.--Bran 20 cts.;
Shorts 25 cts.; Brown Stuff 35 cts. ; and Ship
Stuff 65 cts. per bus.
Onions.--Red $2 per bbl. of near three bushels; Silver-skin $2 ½.
Peas.--None in market.
Plaster.--Lump — We quote at $5 per ton.--
Claiborne's Richmond Ground $8.50 per ton packed;
Sharpe's do. packed $8.50; loose $7.50.
Potatoes.--We quote Northern 60@65 cts. per bushel
Rice.--5@5 ½ cts.
Rosin.--$1.70@1.75 per bbl.
Rye.--We quote 60@65 cts. per bus.
Sugars.--New Orleans Sugar (one cargo arrived) we quote 7 ½@8 cents;
Cuba 7 ½ @8 ½ cents;
Porto Rico 8@9 ½ cents; Loaf 11@11 ¼ cents; Crushed and Powdered 19 ¼ cents; Coffee Sugar: A 10 cents; B 9 ¼ cents; Extra C 9 ¼c.
Salt.--Last sales from wharf $1.65; from store $1.75 per sack.
Saltpetre.--9@10 cts. per lb.
Seneca Root.--35@37 ½ cts.
Shot.--7@7 ¼ cts. cash, and time as to quantity, for drop and buck.
Starch.--Corn 6@6 ½ cts.;
Pearl 7@8 ½ cts.
Staves.--Good oak, for flour barrels, we quote at $5 per thousand; Machine cut $7 @8.
Tobacco.--Sales still limited, at former quotations.
We notice the sales of some
Lugs and common
Leaf Lugs, $1.75@2.50;
Leaf $3@4.50; some stemming
Leaf $6 @9.50; no fine manufacturing in market.
Stock on hand of the old crop very light, and mostly of inferior quality.
Wheat.--Receipts light and market firm at $1.50@1.55 for
White; $1.30@$1.35 for Red.
Wines.--Port,Burgundy $1@$2.50 per gallon; Port Juice $2.50@$4.
Madeira,
Sicily 45@$1.75; Old Madeira $2.50 @$4.
Sherry, Pormartin,
Duff and
Gordon, Amontillado, $2 @$6.
Wood.--Wholesale; Oak $3.50@$3.75 per cord; Pine $2.75@$3. Retail Oak $5; Pine $4.50.
Wool.--Tub Washed sold at 35@37; unwashed third press.
Fleece as in quality.
Whiskey.--Richmond Rectified 21 ½@22 ½ cents;
Stearns' Old Malted Rye $1.50; other qualities 75 cts.@$1.50 per gallon.
Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, &c.
Beef.--Sales this week at $3@4.50 for good to prime cattle.
Market well supplied--
Sheep.--We quote sales at $3.50 per head for ordinary sheep, and $5.25 per cwt. gross for the best quality.
Hogs.--Sales of corn-fed at $8.25@9.50 per cwt.; distillery-fed $7.75@8.
Freights.
Foreign.--Nothing to add relative to foreign freights.
Domestic.--The following are the present rates as coastwise freights:
| | New York. | Boston. | Philad'A. |
| Coal, per ton | $1.50 | $1.75 | $1.25 |
| Flour, per bbl | 20 | 25 | 20 |
| Tobacco, per hhd | 2.50 | 3.00 | 2.50 |
| do., per box | 20 | 25 | 25 |
Coal to
Baltimore, 3 cts per bushel; Flour 12 ½ cts. Per bbl.
money Matters,
we give below the best quotations we can obtain:
Exchange on the
North is scarce and rates lower.
We quote on New York 6--scarce;
Philadelphia 6, and
Baltimore 5 ½ per cent. Premium.
North and South Carolina Bank notes 2@2 ½ per cent. Discount.
Planters' and Miners' Bank of
Murphy (N. C.) 20 per cent. Discount.
Specie 4 ½@5 ½ per cent. Premium.
List of Virginia Bank notes Bankable in Richmond.
- all the Banks located in Richmond, and the branches of such as have branches.
- Bank of Commerce, Fredericksburg.
- Bank of Howardsville, Howardsville, Albemarle.
- Bank of the Old Dominion, Alexandria.
- Bank of Rockbridge, Lexington.
- Bank of Rockingham, Harrisonburg.
- Bank of Scottsville, Scottsville.
- Central Bank of Virginia, Staunton.
- Danville Bank, Danville, Va.
- Farmers' Bank of Fincastle, Fincastle.
- merchants' Bank, Lynchburg.
- Monticello Bank, Charlottesville.
- Southwestern Bank, Wytheville.
- Branch of the Bank of the Valley, Staunton.
- Branch of the Bank of the Valley, Christiansburg.
list of Virginia Bank notes Unbankable in Richmond.
- Bank of the Valley and branches, save at Staunton and Christiansburg.
- Bank of Wheeling, Wheeling.
- Manufacturers' and Farmers' Bank of Wheeling and branches.
- Northwestern Bank of Virginia, Wheeling, and branches.
- Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Wheeling and Branches.
- Bank of Charleston, Malden, Kanawha.
- Bank of Berkeley, Martinsburg.
- Branch Bank of the Old Dominion, at Pearisburg.
- Bank of Philippi, Philippi, Barbour county.
- Bank of Winchester, Winchester.
- Fairmont Bank, Fairmont.
The notes of the foregoing
Banks are bought by the brokers of this city at 1 per cent, discount.
Virginia Bank notes that are at twenty-Five
per Cent, Discount.
The notes of the following
Banks are at 25 per cent. discount:
There are probably few, if any, of the notes of the last named Bank afloat, as it has been discredited for some years.
